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Re: Ryzen - What is your planned build?

Originally Posted by undersea

Great, msi still hasn't released a official bios for the tomahawk. They have unofficial but I'm not testing bios for them.

How do you like it so far?

It's nice so far in testing but haven't switched over to using it just yet as my primary rig. I need to move some drives over from my old rig and get some of my essential software installed. I need to sit down and spend some time with it to finish up.

Gigabyte seems to be ahead of MSI so far in putting out a stable BIOS for the AM4 boards. I've heard of problems with some MSI boards related to not quite ready BIOS versions.

Re: Ryzen - What is your planned build?

Originally Posted by xLegendary

Waiting for the R5 ryzens to come around to build one for my friend. Now the question is, which mobo.. was thinking the B350 Pro4, what do you guys think?

I don't know about the B350 boards but the MSI X370 boards had problems with early BIOS versions. Getting better now from what I understand. I built a 1700x + Gigabyte Gaming 5 and using a BIOS from mid-March it's been nice and stable. I'm going to be building a Ryzen 5 + Gigabtye AB350 Gaming 3 but haven't even started that yet so I can't comment on that motherboard but in general I have a good impression of the Gigabyte boards.

Re: Ryzen - What is your planned build?

There seems to be some pretty serious memory issues for Ryzen setups at the moment? At least some (probably many) reports of people being unable to run memory stable past 2400Mhz. I'm probably going to built a smallish Ryzen system based on the Ryzen 5 1600X, which I think is a good compromise, with high clocks out of the box and more cores than Socket 1151 Intel counterparts. Want some more info about the memory issues though.

Re: Ryzen - What is your planned build?

Originally Posted by Pehu

There seems to be some pretty serious memory issues for Ryzen setups at the moment? At least some (probably many) reports of people being unable to run memory stable past 2400Mhz. I'm probably going to built a smallish Ryzen system based on the Ryzen 5 1600X, which I think is a good compromise, with high clocks out of the box and more cores than Socket 1151 Intel counterparts. Want some more info about the memory issues though.

Best advice is follow the compatability by the given motherboard. Amd is working on the memory compatability, do your research in the manufacturer motherboard forums.

I'd guess the amd build should be 10-15% cheaper with chip and motherboard prices.

"Angels on the sideline, Puzzled and amused.
Why did Father give these humans free will?
Now they’re all confused."

Re: Ryzen - What is your planned build?

As I've mentioned some boards are doing better with memory compatibility than others. Gigabyte is doing good. MSI not so great. ASUS is so-so. I'm sure that will improve with the new AGESA code and future BIOSes but that's my observation as of right now. I'm using the Gigabyte Gaming 5 with Corsair 3000 RAM and it's running perfectly at 2933.